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– Dave Davison is the subject of Project: New Man, a partly secret joint venture of the U.S. Government and the Fortress Foundation, a private sector non-profit philanthropic organization dedicated to public defense and scientific research. Dave has the dual role of being part of the research project and at the same time being groomed by the Government as a public protector in the Five Lakes Megalopolis area. Dave has a dark past which he hoped was dead and buried but in his first public adventure he confronts his past and an old partner head on in “The Mall Massacres”. Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 32 page Independent Comic: Project: New Man #1is FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– His actual identity is as much a mystery as what drives him. He calls himself Ebenezer Baal, and he is The Haunted Man but he intends for misery to have company as he in turn haunts Dave Davison a.k.a New Man. We find out in this origin tale Dave was not always a hero, and it seems his past is easily as shady as the criminals he now pursues! Co-Starring The Thunder Hawks! The backup story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Dave Davison A.K.A New Man goes out for a morning jog only to return to the Moriah Building under a full scale attack from Cyber-Tech! Also featuring Bearcat, and the Thunder Hawks! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– We tie up a lot of loose ends in this issue as The Haunted Man concludes. We find out the true identity of Ebeneezer Baal, see Bearcat in action again, see the abduction of Fawn and Nick, Cyber-Tech escapes plus a special secret surprise guest-star! Yeah! This one has it all!Featuring lots of never before published and some ALL-NEW material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– High crime rates, higher gas prices, inflation and garbage strikes, are one thing but the recent unnatural storms have the residents Five Lakes Megalopolis rattled. Then the appearance of unusual individuals wielding supernatural powers precede the coming of a walking, flying nightmare! His name is Megeddon, Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Krystal McKliston is an investigative reporter looking into these mysteries as she learns there are “Humants Among Us!”The lead story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark must enter into deadly battle with Megeddon, the Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Their goal: no less than total world destruction! Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter, tries to capture the action on video while dodging falling debris. She later comfronts a new villain: The Tower! Janeta Rosebud meets Omni Spawn and things will never again be the same! The lead story from Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants #2! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Omnispawn ushers in yet another Humant: The Savage Chaosta! Also having survived their first encounter with the evil Dark Lord Mageddon, the Khosmotic Warriors have banded together and rented an old warehouse to use as a headquarters and training facility. Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– This issue features the all out war between the Humants and the Renegade Humants! It's action from cover to cover as Freazie White, Jr. writes and does finished pencils over Mark Poe's layouts and we introduce a new inker, Paul Schulze! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– What happens when you try to administer first aid to an unconscious Humant? Well, in the case of Chaosta things could get pretty scary when she wakes up and thinks she is still battling the Renegade Humants! Man Ark and Sojourner find a lot of trouble for their efforts! Plus: Much More by Freazie White, Jr. new inker, Anthony Grayand Billy Leavell with Letters and Edits! PLUS: An offbeat Bearcat backup tale! By Mark Poe, Freazie White, Jr., Mark Alan Lester and Billy Leavell! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Tess is a young lady who is a living tesseract. She comes from another dimension and in our dimension she can teleport herself or just about anything else just about any where. She manifests the power in a number of ways other than teleportation and she has a cute little 4th dimensional dog with a very high I.Q. named Nostradamus. In short: we are 3D beings, Tess and Nostradamus are 4D beings.Plus: Much More by Greg Legat writer/creator, Mark Poe with pencils, letters and colors! and J. Adam Walters handling inking embellishment. Featuring never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

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Happy Birthday, John Romita! John V. Romita Sr., better known among his peers and fans as simply John Romita was born January 24, 1930. The week was his 88th Birthday. For those younger folks who may not know, he is an American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics’ The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating the character The Punisher. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002.

Romita is the father of John Romita Jr., also a comic-book artist, and husband of Virginia Romita, for many years Marvel’s traffic manager. (Source: Wikipedia)

Spider-Man – John Romita is best remembered for his rendition of Spider-Man. Romita has more than once admitted how intimidated he was to take over the book from the departing, co-creator of the character, Steve Ditko. He did have some big shoes to fill, but he came through like a champ and re-established the look of Spider-man and his supporting cast and with Stan Lee turned it into Marvel’s biggest selling title, even bigger than their flagship book, the Fantastic Four.

Mary Jane Watson – In the ’60’s Romita was responsible for the look of Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker’s soon to be girlfriend and eventual wife and ex-wife. Romita was the first to draw Mary Jane Watson who Lee and Ditko had teased readers with references to in dialog but did not show her until Romita assumed the penciling chores on Amazing Spider-Man.

Art Director- Romita acted as the Art Director at Marvel from the late ’60’s up until the late ’80’s. Romita was responsible for designing the look of the Marvel line.

He was responsible for designing packaging for merchandise, titles and character concepts. He designed the first costumes of The Punisher and Wolverine. Although the designs have been altered over the years the basic elements Romita assigned to them have endured the passage of time. Before he assumed the role of Art Director Stan and Jack shared that position with Stan having final say in most everything.

Mark’s Remarks:John Romita was a great influence on my artwork early on even more so than Jack Kirby. The reason for this is I did not start getting Marvels until the close of the ’60’s. Because of the Spider-Man animated cartoon series I came into comics collecting as a Spidey fan. I went on to become an even bigger fan of the FF later. Being a Romita fan first is somewhat ironic because Kirby influenced Romita as well as every artist at Marvel for decades. I did not know that until years later. I was not as a big fan of Kirby’s early Marvel work which I accessed mainly through Marvel’s reprint series. Some of this was due to Kirby’s evolving style as the 60’s went on. Kirby peaked at Marvel from ’65 through 67. He was still great after that period but his style kept evolving and became more abstract after the peak years. In my younger years I favored more realism in the artwork like that of Neal Adams. Another reason for this was the quality of the reprints. I was fortunate to latch onto some low grade original issues of the Fantastic Four years after their initial print runs and the quality compared to the reprints blew me away!

One of my most cherished memories of the ’70’s Marvel line was the return of Jack Kirby to Captain America! Cap #193 leaped off the stands at me, it seemed, with an awesome cover by my two favorite Marvel artists of that time, Kirby and Romita! Both men could do some great work on their own but it was something special when Romita inked Kirby. It reminded me a great deal of occasions when Wally Wood would ink Kirby’s pencils.

The ’60’s and ’70’s were some great years to be collecting comics and developing my cartoon art skills. I had inspiration not only from Romita and Kirby but also Gil Kane, Wally Wood, John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Rich Buckler, Jim Steranko, Marie Severin, John Severin, Bill Everette, Don Heck, Steve Ditko, Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom, Frank Brunner, Dave Simons, Gene Colan, Val Maynerick, Jim Moony, Barry Windsor-Smith, Neal Adams, John Byrne, Frank Giacoa, Joe Sinnott and more than my ol’ memory can recollect at this time. It was a special time and fun to recall.

Onward!

Mark

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Archives Spotlight

Archive’s Spotlight is designed to look at all which has come before and add new comments as well. This posting we are reviewing Project: New Man #4 pages 25-26!

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Project: New Man #4 – Page 25 – No art changes on this and the next page. Panels 4 & 5 of page 25 has some minor script changes. Every panel got script changes on page 26. Again since we are prepping these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics, we are revising script and art which needs adjusting before going to press. See if you can spot the changes.